10 free, exam-style Certified Imaging Informatics Professional (CIIP) (CIIP) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free CIIP practice test to study every exam domain.
The CIIP exam has 170 questions and runs 2 hours 50 minutes.
These 10 free CIIP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Certified Imaging Informatics Professional (CIIP) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
During a trauma resuscitation, a CT is acquired under a temporary identity ("Trauma Doe") before the patient is registered in the HIS. Once the true identity is known, the images must be linked to the correct patient record. Which IHE profile is designed to handle this reconciliation?
Correct answer: C - Patient Information Reconciliation (PIR)
A health system replaces its PACS every several years and wants to avoid a costly, high-risk data migration each time it changes the viewing application. Which architectural approach BEST achieves this goal?
Correct answer: B - Deploying a vendor neutral archive (VNA) that stores data in standard formats independent of the viewer
A modality sends images to the archive and then automatically deletes its local copies to free space. To ensure images are NOT deleted until the archive has accepted long-term responsibility for them, which DICOM mechanism must be in place?
Correct answer: C - Storage Commitment
Two hospitals within the same health system are on separate subnets. A modality on one subnet cannot establish a DICOM association with a PACS on the other, although both devices respond to a ping. A firewall sits between the subnets. Which is the MOST likely cause?
Correct answer: B - The DICOM port (e.g., 104 or 11112) is not open through the firewall
An imaging department's leadership states that after a disaster, the PACS may lose no more than 15 minutes of previously acquired image data. This 15-minute limit is a statement of the department's:
Correct answer: D - Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
An imaging informatics manager must estimate annual archive growth. The department performs 60,000 CT examinations per year, and the average CT study is 300 MB. Ignoring compression and other modalities, approximately how much storage will CT alone consume in one year?
Correct answer: C - About 18 TB
A facility wants its diagnostic reading monitors calibrated so that equal changes in stored pixel value produce equal changes in PERCEIVED brightness across the full range of the display. Which standard defines this perceptually linear relationship?
Correct answer: B - The DICOM Grayscale Standard Display Function (GSDF)
A new CT scanner successfully verifies connectivity to the PACS, but every study it sends is rejected by the archive. A technologist confirms the AE title, IP address, and port are all correct. Which configuration mismatch is the MOST likely cause?
Correct answer: A - The scanner and PACS do not share a common transfer syntax for the CT Storage SOP Class
A radiologist at a satellite clinic requests that a prior study stored on the main hospital PACS be sent to the clinic's own workstation. The PACS receives the request and then opens a NEW connection to the clinic workstation to deliver the images. Which DICOM service was used?
Correct answer: B - C-MOVE, because the archive initiates a separate association to the destination
An interface analyst is troubleshooting why radiology orders are not attaching to the correct patient in the PACS. The HL7 order messages arrive intact, but images and orders fail to merge. Which HL7 v2 segment and field should the analyst examine FIRST as the most common point of failure?
Correct answer: A - The PID segment, specifically the patient identifier list (PID-3 / MRN)
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